wanting to build and empire. Communists used it as an abuse-word to describe the western powers.

What was Churchill’s Fulton speech (5 March 1946) about?

He said ‘a shadow’ had fallen on eastern Europe, which was now cut off from the free world by ‘an iron curtain’. Behind that line, he said, the people of eastern Europe were ‘subject to Soviet influence . . . totalitarian control [and] police governments’.

Why did Britain keep soldiers in Greece after the Second World War had finished?

To support the Greek free government against the Communists.

What happened when the British could no longer afford to keep soldiers in Greece?